Can't even shout, Can't even cry. The Gentlemen are coming by. Looking in windows, knocking on doors. They need to take seven, and they might take yours. Can't call to mom, can't say a word. You're gonna die screaming but you won't be heard.

Dream Girl ,'Bring On The Night'


Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.

There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."


Kathy A - Nov 09, 2010 11:39:35 am PST #12884 of 28427
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil

I've read all your damn books, woman! I know how she sets a frickin' leg!

Ha!

That was one of my biggest problems with that last book--it was just a rehash of so many things she'd already covered, from botany and Stone Age healing practices to all of the characters' personal issues. I was just so sick of it all, and the fact that it was written in a mindnumbingly boring fashion didn't help anything.


zuisa - Nov 10, 2010 6:43:53 am PST #12885 of 28427
call me jacki; zuisa is an internet nick from ancient times =)

I'm only 20 chapters into the first Hunger Games book and it already turned me into an emotional mess.


tiggy - Nov 10, 2010 7:11:58 am PST #12886 of 28427
I do believe in killing the messenger, you know why? Because it sends a message. ~ Damon Salvatore

understandable, zuisa! i was reading it at work one day and got to a part that made me cry. i had to turn around to make sure no one could see.


zuisa - Nov 10, 2010 7:28:40 am PST #12887 of 28427
call me jacki; zuisa is an internet nick from ancient times =)

When I was reading last night I got to the part where Rue dies and Katniss sings to her and oh my goodness was I a mess. I hear that the other two books in the trilogy don't exactly get any happier so I am prepared for lots of sadness in my very near future.


Amy - Nov 10, 2010 7:30:04 am PST #12888 of 28427
Because books.

I was reading Catching Fire during Sara's swimming lesson last week, and got to a part that absolutely shocked me -- like take my breath away shock -- and teared up.

Luckily, it was so humid in there I don't think anyone noticed.


DawnK - Nov 10, 2010 7:58:59 am PST #12889 of 28427
giraffe mode

zuisa, I got to that part while I was eating lunch at Chipolte. Thankfully I could cover the tears with a fake hot salsa cough. Man, I finally had to not read them while out at lunch 'cause you never know when a gut punch is coming.


§ ita § - Nov 10, 2010 8:07:23 am PST #12890 of 28427
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I read the second one on a really bad day and wept for miles. I'd like to call it healthy and cathartic, but I don't even know.


tiggy - Nov 10, 2010 8:32:37 am PST #12891 of 28427
I do believe in killing the messenger, you know why? Because it sends a message. ~ Damon Salvatore

that part killed me too, zuisa. i'm really fighting the urge to re-read all of them. i have a habit of zooming through books and then if i love them i instantly want to re-read.


zuisa - Nov 10, 2010 9:34:47 am PST #12892 of 28427
call me jacki; zuisa is an internet nick from ancient times =)

I just finished the first book. Wow was that an emotional roller coaster. When they ever announced that there could only be one winner after all, I think I nearly died. I have the next book already but I think I need a break from the stress.


zuisa - Nov 12, 2010 2:43:18 am PST #12893 of 28427
call me jacki; zuisa is an internet nick from ancient times =)

Sorry for the spammy Hunger Games serial posting! I just don't know anyone else who has read them, really.

I have about 100 pages of Catching Fire left and I have a really easy substituting gig today but I am terrified to start reading because I don't want to break down weeping in front of all the students. So far I've only cried reading this one once, but. Man. Talk about bleak.

I frequently want to just slam the book shut and yell AND THEN PEETA AND KATNISS LIVED HAPPILY EVER AFTER THE END.